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*** [[NostalgiaFilter They were players around since the days of the early Yu-Gi-Oh card game]] [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks and believed all the new different summoning methods changed the game too much and made it suck.]][[labelnote:*]][[Website/{{Twitch}} Kappa]][[/labelnote]]

*** No it wasn't. Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon has a normal attack of 2500. The bulk of level 4 cards (and under) tend to reach 2000 attack at most. In order to do anything he would need something to wipe Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon off the field along with the Pendelum cards and do the 100 LP damage, since Yuya could simply resummon it with new Overlay units due to the extra deck rule. What that means is he would of needed a 2600 five star monster or a way to power one up to that again. Since Dark Rebellion's monster effect is an ignition type he had no reason to fear the Xyz effect. Basically what this amounts to is Yuya over-killing just because he could, since Kachidoki was out of moves beyond an Action card that could summon monsters or do direct damage.

** It's effect is different in the anime, it doesn't work on the opponent's turn.

* Does anyone else find it strange that the members of the synchro dimension have cards with effects which in no way can be used without interdimensional interaction? I read up Tuning Magician's anime effect, and even though it was a card that Jack gave to the commons boy, it's effect is related to pendulum cards. And neither of the characters involved have relations to other dimensions. Plus, this more than likely happened at a time before Yuya brought pendulum into existence, if the dimension's passages of time flow at the same rate.

** Why didn't Yuya just let Starve Venom Fusion Dragon get destroyed and use it's effect to nuke Reiji by destroying all of his D/D/D Doom King Armageddons and dealing 9000 points of damage to him?

*** Because it was completely unexpected. The audience in the show only knows what they have been shown from three things. His duel with Ishijima, his opening speech, and his first duel in the tournament. Him acting like a completely different person (like Sora did in his duel) is creepy and frightening. He also went overkill on purpose. Yuya could of kept his overlay unit and still won the duel.

** Not really anything Fridge, because, well... SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay.

** Episode 127 confirms that Standard initially only had Tribute Summons, and implies that [[spoiler:Leo reintroduced them]].

*** As to making the cards, they likely have a chip in them with the relevant data & scripts, meaning each card needs to contain data on its stats, effects, summoning conditions, and everything of the sort. (Which also explains how they even worked in the first place, since Yuya's duel disk was just reading data from his cards, although that raises the question of whether [[spoiler:Zarc]] is a programmer.) So, without the proper scripting, the cards could easily malfunction. It's likely that LDS just wanted to read the data from Yuya's cards, so they could fix the bugs in their Pendulum script.

** Given information revealed in later episodes, this may be due to [[spoiler:Zarc's influence]].

** As of episode 18, [[spoiler: she suddenly has a Fusion Monster that fits exactly with her "Fantasia" deck theme. No explanation is given how.]]

* Why wasn't the Duel Disk able to recognize that Yuzu [[spoiler: put a Fusion Monster in the Main Deck]]?

* Was there any reason for Yuya to return his Magicians to his Deck with Mad Hurricane in Ep. 39? Pendulum Summon doesn't force you to Summon every monster you can with the set Scales, and the two Magicians (Scales 1 and 8) could've easily got the monsters needed for [[spoiler:Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon]].
** The two monsters in the Pendulum Scale were Trump Witch (Scale 4) and Timegazer Magician (Scale 8). Yuya couldn't have summoned any [[spoiler:level 4 monsters for Dark Rebellion]] with those scales.

** That bugged me, too. Okay, so Yuya got pissed and decided to stop screwing around and beat the guy. Considering the crap Kachidoki puts his opponents through, Yuya being angry by his own will or through [[spoiler:Berserk Mode]] is ''completely'' justified. Not to mention [[spoiler:Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon]] didn't actually strike Kachidoki, whereas Kachidoki kept beating the crap out of Yuya through the whole Duel. I can understand his friends being disappointed in him (stuff like this doesn't match Yuya), but at least a good portion of the audience should've been cheering out of pure joy of seeing Kachidoki being the victim for once.

** It may be because of [[spoiler:Yuya's SuperpoweredEvilSide (the name "Berserk Mode" is floating around for this) awakening, him Summoning Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon, and beating down Kachidoki.]] "Imperial Wrath" (逆鱗 ''Gekirin'') appears in the idiom "逆鱗に触れる" (gekirin ni fureru), which translates as "to infuriate one's superior"; Yuya is indeed superior to Kachidoki, and when [[spoiler:Kachidoki's beatings awakened his Berserk Mode, he proved it with a pissed-off look on his face.]] "Gekirin" has another meaning that relates to [[spoiler:Dark Rebellion]], too: It literally means "reverse scale", and it usually refers to a dragon scale growing in the opposite direction, which will infuriate the dragon if touched, once again linking to [[spoiler:the Berserk Mode, and possibly to Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon's own anger at its owner vanishing.]]
** It's also a CallBack, as Gekirin/Imperial Wrath was used in the title of [[spoiler: the episode Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon first appeared in, Episode 7]].

* Okay, Ep. 45, you gave us a big one. Dennis is from the Xyz Summon Course, right? Then why does he have freaking [[spoiler:''Polymerization'']] in his Deck?

** [[spoiler:Turns out he's apparently working with Yuri, who's from the Fusion Dimension.]]

* Why did Reiji keep the 2000 Life Points penalty when he ''knows'' there are invaders have infiltrated the tournament? Seriously, [[spoiler:Michio and Teppei]] wouldn't have lost so quickly if they had the usual 4000 Life Points.

* [[spoiler:Jack Atlas]] is considered to be a bad guy who sold his soul to the tops despite giving his fan a "weak" card. The fan in question misinterpret it as him being weak despite the card is a tuner which usually have powerful effects to get a Synchro Summon out. Is everyone in the Synchro Dimension shallow or something?

* Ok, so if some of the Lancers have [[spoiler:Pendulum Cards]] why would Reiji not insist that all of them have some? Since [[spoiler:Tsukikage doesn't appear to have them]].

* Something that has bothered me since the beginning of the Synchro Arc... why didn't the Commons rise up against the Tops already? The Tops may control 99% of the wealth, but they are only 1% of the population. [[spoiler: The Commons may be poor, but it is impossible for them to not have access to blunt and bladed implements like hammers, frying pans, knives and other tools. And the Tops are, as mentioned, outnumbered 99 to 1.]]

* Episode 78: Why did [[spoiler:Sora grab the IdiotBall and didn't send Yuzu to Academia when she was unconscious right in front of him? If I remember correctly, Sora's whole mission is to bring Yuzu and Serena to Leo Akaba. And he can send people to Academia, as he did with Dennis.]]
** [[spoiler:Sora still considers Yuzu and Yuya to be his friends, before he was hesitant to go get Serena just because she looks like Yuzu, so he likely didn't want to send her to Academia because she was wounded.]]
** Also, Sora's mission is to go after [[spoiler:Serena. Not Yuzu]].
** Episode 80 confirms that [[spoiler:he doesn't want to capture Yuzu since she's his friend and his mission is indeed just to capture Serena.]]

* Why did Yuya panic [[spoiler:after having Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon chained up by Barrett's second trap card? Did he grab the IdiotBall and forget that he has Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon and the two Pendulum Monsters needed to convert Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon to Level 7? Heck, since Barrett only set two face downs, summoning Odd-Eyes Rebellion Dragon would completely destroy Barrett's field and leave him with only 1000 LP.]]

* Episode 123 why didn't Alexis Ritual Summon Cyber Angel Vrash or any other of Cyber Angels during her duel against Yuri. [[spoiler: I mean she could have won and beaten him and not get carded]].

*** I know Ritual Monsters go into the main deck. What I meant was surely she must have say Cyber Petit Angel in her hand to add Vrash to her hand. But also [[spoiler: why have her get carded in the end]] instead of Yuri moving on to duel Sora next and have him card them both after he beats Sora.

* This is bugging me. In episode 123 [[spoiler: Alexis gets carded by Yuri]] why was she not mentioned or seen even during the battle with Zarc. She should have helped Aster and Sora dueled Zarc. She was completely forgotten about for 21 episodes until 145 shows shes not [[spoiler: carded]].

*** [[spoiler:Leo Akaba Pendulum Summoning might throw an interesting wrench into all of this.]]
*** [[spoiler:It's revealed so far that duel discs from all four dimensions can pendulum summon. Normal duel disc in Synchro Dimension (the one used in Yuya's duel against Tokumatsu), Leo Akaba, Dennis and Kurosaki are evidences (unless the latter three's discs were tweaked). Until the series gives proper explanation (like pendulum monsters and pendulum summoning existed before the dimension was split or something), the whole thing is still vague.]]
*** [[spoiler:The most reasonable explanation is that Zarc and Ray, who effectively willed it into existence, somehow managed to affect the systems or coding of duel disks. It's still a bit sketchy though]].
* Episode 125: [[spoiler: How can the parasite enter Yuya's brain through the ear canal? First of all, the ear drum should be in the way (and Yuya can hear even after it enters his brain, so it didn't just pierce the eardrum).]] I've also added this to the "Anime" subpage under ArtisticLicenseBiology.

*** If subtitle is acurate, in episode 127 Doktor says "I developed Parasite Fusioner in order to explore the possibilities of Real Solid Vision" which more or less implies the bugs are Real Solid Vision creation and after [[spoiler:Doktor was carded bracelet girls went back to normal]] so it holds.
* As of recent, something's been bothering me about Leo Akaba: If he's really so dedicated to [[spoiler: stopping Yuya and his dimensional counterparts from merging back into Zarc]]...why doesn't he just card Yuri? Yuri clearly trusts Leo, so all Leo would have to do is call Yuri to talk with him, and then when he's not looking, card him at the last second (and it's pretty likely that Leo could beat Yuri in a duel if he needed to). Even if [[spoiler: Yugo ends up being absorbed by Yuya and joins Yuto similar to how [[WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged Nail and Kami reside in Piccolo's head]]]], they still wouldn't turn into [[spoiler:Zarc]] if Yuri weren't around.
** Maybe [[spoiler: Zarc can revive even if one if his alternate selves is carded so it won't matter? ]] There's also the chance that [[spoiler: carding any of them might have consequences that affect Leo's plan to revive Ray.]] Or maybe they can't be carded at all.

* So does the [[spoiler:Supreme King Dragon Zarc]] card go in the main Deck, Extra Deck, or what? Does it have its own deck? It's a Fusion, Synchro and Xyz monster (which are exclusively for the Extra Deck), but it has orange-brown on it, which are used for effect monsters exclusive to the main Deck. (Unless they're Pendulum monsters sent to the Extra Deck, but that's just Pendulum shenanigans and still originate from the main Deck.)

* In Episode 145 two things that bugs me. One is why is Asuka/Alexis supporting Leo? I thought she hated his guts after learning that he made students turn people into cards. And two how did she get [[spoiler: uncarded when nobody was even holding onto her card during the battle against Zarc]] I mean I'm glad she's back but how did it happen?

** As it turns out, episode 126 reveals that it's [[spoiler:none of them; they took place in the Original Dimension that was split into four]].

*** Except this was only in Duelist Kingdom, the time before the anime card game had rules.